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Located just over 2 hours from Denver Colorado (off of I-25and thankfully no where near I-70 so you will avoid all of that weekend traffic!) and just to the east of Walsenburg Colorado lies a 250 acre lake called simply Maria. The beauty of this name is clearly relevant! As you glide across the water in the early hours admiring the snow-capped Spanish Peaks and trying to relieve your aching face from the perma-grin of catching an 8 pound trout. Probably your 5th fish over 3 pounds in the last 23 minutes. Or in the fall, when the night before opening waterfowl season and you listen to thousands of mallards and geese quacking and honking through the night from your front deck porch. Knowing that you will finish the perfect day of fishing and waterfowling with a run through the tall grasses chasing pheasants with your son or daughter. These visions are simply not just what dreams are made of, but rather a reality that is being offered for the first time in 25 years to the general public.
Maria Lake has been operated for the last 25 years as a very small, private and exclusive club comprised of a handful of local Denver businessmen. They have decided to subdivide a very small portion of the lakeside land into lots for other avid sportsmen and women to enjoy as they have for many years. The purpose is not to make profits off a development. Rather to open up this place for a select few to enjoy, raise a little capital for future fun projects and to make some new lasting friendships. Maria Lake is the place they decided to funnel their recreation dollars and it has paid off handsomely. In the form of probably the States finiest still water fishery, over 1500 acres of manicured ranch land all for the purpose of habitat for wildlife, fishing and hunting. The idea was to create a recreational paradise with all the amenities of home.
Imagine fishing a lake where you can reasonably expect to catch 10, 20 or even 30 trout in the 16 to 28 inch range everday. When I heard this I was personally skeptical. My family and I were invited to visit Maria Lake a few weeks back to spend a weekend in the guest lodge and to experience these Alaska sized Rainbows. As an experienced trophy property broker, I have heard many promises of world class hunting and fishing properties, so I enter each property with a guarded optimism. It wasnt until about the 5th fish over 3 pounds in less than 40 minutes of fishing that it started to dawn on me that Maria Lake is the real deal. Not to mention these are no skinny trout. Absolute broad shouldered brutes that are almost as wide as they are long! All fishing is catch and release with single hook flies and lures only.
The partners of Maria Lake Ranch have been working for years to ensure the ranchs water supplies are adjudicated for not only domestic water use but also recreational and piscatorial rights. Maria Lake Ranch has the oldest adjudicated water storage rights in the entire State of Colorado! These water rights are now used to serve this outdoor recreation haven. This small lakeside development has been officially approved by the county and all infra-structure such as water treatment, covenants, roads, gates, etc. have already been professionally designed and implemented.
Your membership to the Maria Lake fishing club is subject to approval by the board and the lot purchase includes the initiation fee into the club and first year dues. Maria Lake has a full time ranch manager that handles all of the day to day maintenance of your property (cleaning, grass mowing, weeding, snow removal, inspecting homes in the winter) and of course all of the duties of running the fishery, shooting range and cattle operation, so that you can focus your time and energy on having fun and enjoying quality time with your family and friends.
If you have been looking for the answer to how can I get the most recreation and enjoyment for my real estate dollar? then Maria Lake could be the answer. Where else in Colorado can you buy a lake front lot (with snow capped views)for under $275K, put up a home or cabin for under $200K, and have private use of a 250 acre lake with an abundance of *HUGE* fish, over 1300 acres of common ranch land, multiple ducks ponds (with a massive population of waterfowl in the fall) a sporting clay range and a full time caretaker to handle all the details and work? Maria Lake Ranch is truly a fisherman and hunters dream come true. Get ready to experience the outdoors.the way it should be.
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